Replacing hard drive (C) With a new drive????

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Joe O

I want to replace my existing 40 GB HD, a MAXToR, that
has Windows XP Pre UPGRADE installed upon it.

First I transfered the entire existing C drive to my new
hard drive a WD 80 GB drive(using Norton Ghost), this
transfer went well. however about 1GB of files did not
transfer???? I know not what was not transferred.

The Bios recognizes the hew drive. Also when the old C
drive is used to boot from the My Computer (windows also
sees the new drive as a new D drive).

However after removing my old C drive and re pinning the
new drive as the only drive when it starts to boot and I
see the black background XP pro splash page as in a
normal boot. ( the dots are moving as is normal)
Then that page disappears and I now see a blue (NOT THE
OLD BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH) screen that says windows XP and
hax a small windows logo near the center of it.

And that is where the computer hangs up and goes no
farther.

I have tried all of the available BIOS boot options,
tried to boot from it as HD-0 and put then it on my
ATA133 card and tried to boot it as a SCUZY disk (same as
the orginal old C drive was booted from)

It still hangs up at the same point)

Can I try to reinstall windows over the transferred XP
program that is there if I boot from the old C drive and
install XP on the drive when it is up and shown as a D
drive?? How would I do that( install XP again over on a D
drive??? I am afrais my prior registeration ACTIVATION of
the OS would not be valid if I start from scratch

What else can I do?

Can anyone help me with this problem?
 
Hi, Joe.

I'm afraid I can't follow most of your tale of woe. :>(

Some of your comments really confuse me. Like...
I have tried all of the available BIOS boot options,
tried to boot from it as HD-0 and put then it on my
ATA133 card and tried to boot it as a SCUZY disk (same as
the orginal old C drive was booted from)
Click to expand...

I never heard of a SCUZY disk! And if you mean SCSI, then I'm really
confused! SCSI and ATA133 are quite different. You can't even plug an ATA
cable into a SCSI drive, or vice versa, and a SCSI drive would require a
host adapter. But you say your old drive was booted from "SCUZY"?

Based on my best interpretation of what you said, I would suggest that you:

1. Remove your old HD entirely and set it aside until Step 6.

2. Physically install your new 80 GB Maxtor IDE HD as primary master; check
all your cables and jumpers to be sure they are correct.

3. Set your computer to boot from CD-ROM.

4. Insert your WinXP CD-ROM and reboot.

5. Follow the instructions in this KB article to do an in-place upgrade of
WinXP:
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341

Follow Method 2, and note that in step 3, you press Enter, not R; in Step 5,
you press R.

This will fully reinstall WinXP itself, using your Ghosted Registry files to
preserve your installed applications and data. Before going online, be sure
your firewall and antivirus are working. Then go to Windows Update to be
sure you have Service Pack 2 and any later updates (there are none yet).

(You probably will not be required to reactivate WinXP; if you must, it
should be a simple online procedure or, at worst, a 5-minute phone call to
the number that will be provided. Activation is mandatory, of course, but
registration is entirely voluntary.)

6. After WinXP is installed and working on your new HD, shut down,
physically install your old HD as slave or secondary, and reboot. Use Disk
Management to be sure that the old HD is recognized and that your choice of
"drive" letters are assigned to volumes on that HD.

7. Copy any remaining files that you need from your old HD to your new one.
Then you can do whatever you want with the old HD, including repartition and
reformat (using Disk Management).

If you get lost, please post back. In that next post, please clarify the
type of HDs you had and have.

RC
 
i had a similar problem installing a new drive somebody
suggested trying a program called Casper xp
i used that and it went just fine
am running on new drive right now
here is the link to program http://www.fssdev.com/
there is a free version wont resize partion but will copy it
and use partition magic or something else to resize
once up and running on new drive
bgame
 
the new drive i installed was a wd
and i got file errors when using there utility to
copy drive
bgame
 
Joe O said:
I want to replace my existing 40 GB HD, a MAXToR, that
has Windows XP Pre UPGRADE installed upon it.

First I transfered the entire existing C drive to my new
hard drive a WD 80 GB drive(using Norton Ghost), this
transfer went well. however about 1GB of files did not
transfer???? I know not what was not transferred.

The Bios recognizes the hew drive. Also when the old C
drive is used to boot from the My Computer (windows also
sees the new drive as a new D drive).

However after removing my old C drive and re pinning the
new drive as the only drive when it starts to boot and I
see the black background XP pro splash page as in a
normal boot. ( the dots are moving as is normal)
Then that page disappears and I now see a blue (NOT THE
OLD BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH) screen that says windows XP and
hax a small windows logo near the center of it.

And that is where the computer hangs up and goes no
farther.
Click to expand...
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The registry of the new XP (D) uses many files of the original (C) XP
This is why t is not possible to boot on the D XP if the volume C is not
present.
This can be solved:
-Boot on D (possible with C present)
-Swap the letters C, D in the registry of this new XP. As explained in the
Knowledge Base article Q223188 :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q223188
( regedit : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, right click on volume,
choose rename C to Z, D to C, Z to D, reboot).
Any other operation may corrupt both systems.
Then the D XP can operate without C.
To copy XP see http://perso.numericable.fr/gjullien/copy_xp.htm
Georges Jullien
 
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